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Looking at the other reviews it seems this series has really polarised opinion - people love it or hate it. I'm in the 'love it' camp. I think you either get it or you don't.

Fresh, fair storyline, good scripting & well acted. The writers obviously had tongues firmly in cheeks while creating it. It lost a couple of points due to the whole zombie thing being a bit clichéd and a paucity of good Brummie accents.

I'm hoping we get more, Ozzie Osborne would make a fantastic guest star!

Completely enjoyed it! I laughed and smiled a lot and was sorry the season is only six episodes. Hopefully there will be more.

The Comedy is Perfect The Acting Flawless The Premise ... So much fun Give it a try Cant wait for Season 02.

Only 1s and 9/10s at the moment both of which are obviously wrong. It is certainly not a 1 - it is a bit of silly fun and quite watchable. On the basis of the first episode I would put this in the 6.5-7 range. I'll be tuning in for the second episode.

"Hey, remember that hot girl from Downton who went round Bristol whacking demons with a baseball bat with her not quite as hot but funny friend? Let's do something like that!"

That's how imagine the pitch went at the production meeting.

So far it's not quite as much fun or as well written as Crazyhead, but it's got Cara Theobold in it who's always watchable and gives everything to the part however flimsy the story.

The title is rubbish and the sort of thing that I imagine the writer's nine year old niece might have come up with. The humour will appeal to the millennial demographic more than baby-boomers.

I'm surprised it's not on E4 rather than ITV2 as it seems more their kind of thing. Overall it's not rubbish, but it's not great either. There's not much that's worthy of criticism and I'll carry on watching it. It's only three hours over a six episode span, so what could go wrong...?

Hated the first episode but gave it a chance and watched episodes 2 & 3 back to back and am now hooked. Silly, silly situations and the characters are all imbeciles. You know these people don't deserve to survive the apocalypse but you still want them to.

Using a canal boat to navigate a zombie apocalypse is a great low budget idea for a series, and it is able to work in a lot of English-ness to it for a niche appeal of it goes abroad. There is also a lot of room left to grow in the series as the scope is very small for the most part in the first series.

Where the show falls down, at least in my opinion, is in the comedy writing and references. There is a point when they specifically criticise The Big Bang Theory, yet a lot of their references feel so on the nose that they could have come straight out of a horror version of the show (I was reminded of it even before it was brought up!). The jokes are just kind of lame and make you roll your eyes more than actually laugh out loud. It just lacks the nuisance of better comedies and with better writing the show would probably be much improved.

Overall it's a fun throwaway show that definitely has a niche appeal enough to give it a watch, it's just a shame it's humour is so broad.

Ok, so I don't usually write reviews but.. dang. This is one of the best shows I've seen... in forever. The acting, the humor, the zombies, the terror, the dialogue, the EVERYTHING. This show nails it all. It's so rewatchable especially if you're just looking for something that's light hearted, creepy, and easy to follow. As someone who's watched every zombie flick and show out there, this show is an absolute must see. You won't regret it.

It's a funny romp, and a distraction from drama. Take it as it is, a funny comedy about clueless mlilenials who don't know what the hell is going on. I really enjoy it and I love the references to the poorly made Walking Dead.

Found this little gem while browsing on Hulu -- Zomboat! I (oddly perhaps) enjoy a unique treatment of the zombie genre, and Zomboat is definitely unique. It's quite well produced, acted and conceived -- even down to the quirky longboat our heroes commandeer down the narrow canal leading to London while escaping zombies. The many references to pop culture and wry humor, combined with charming dialog took me by surprise. With only 6 episodes in total, the story ends rather abruptly across the final episode. I could've enjoyed more. This isn't Gone With the Wind, but it absolutely is Zomboat!

Good fun comic horror well worth a watch. I've watched more promising series with a much bigger budget and been very disappointed. Give it a go !

This is a fun show, love the humor and the way it's shot. I hope they keep the episodes coming.

It's the zombie apocalypse in Birmingham, England. Kat and her sister Jo find shelter on a slow-moving canal boat. Kat is the video gamer who thinks that she's prepared. Jo is the party girl. They don't realize that Sunny and Amar are hiding on the boat.

It's a bunch of GenZers trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. They seem hopeless to the task, but somehow find a way. I really like all four characters. The characters are fun, and the actors are charming. It's a small British zombie comedy. The key word for this show is fun. It's not serious. It's blood-splattering fun for zombie fans who want something different.

Tired, predictable and (for a programme about a zombie apocalypse) surprisingly boring. It's the type of thing you might expect an unimaginative film student wannabe to throw together. The acting is poor, the characters irritating and the writing completely forgettable.

Ok. What caught me was the title. However watching it was fun. The characters were good. The story was over the top. A fun waste of time.

I love the pommy style of humour, much like the aussie humour, the shows not meant to be taken serious, just a group of idiot millennial's trying to survive a zombie Apocalypse

Cross Gilligan's Island with the walking dead, and you end up with Zomboat. It knows that it is horrible and doesn't try to be serious at all, and that's how you need to watch it.

Although I would agree, that zombie humor can sometimes be best left to a movie.. comedy TV shows can be more difficult to keep the ride going.

Zombieland failed miserably at that attempt... however, seeing as a sequel to Shaun of the Dead wasn't going to happen, or even sequels to other great zombie comedy films such as Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse or Cockneys vs. Zombies.. this show fills in quite nicely. Pretty much like ZNation; even when there's a serious situation, you have the "Doc" like humor to keep everything in check.

I grew up on British humor.. and that's a must if your'e going to get the underlying theme of what's considered hilarious in the U.K.

To me, this is what Shaun of the Dead would have been like in reverse, and as a TV show. Strong female leads and the conflicts from a different vantage point.

Give it a try. Sure beats the endless story lines of other shows that just keep repeating themselves.

An excellent start, a bit like Shaun of the Dead crossed with Zombieland, but with even dafter characters. It rapidly won me over, with lots of knowing in-jokes, especially between the sisters Jo and Kat. The boys haven't yet really jelled for me, but I hope they will. I loved one wide screen shot, held for nearly a minute, of the canal with converted warehouses behind, into which the narrow boat creeps from the left, incredibly slowly - the complete opposite of all those daft high speed car chases! Most importantly, the sisters are aware what a stupid idea it is to escape in a narrow boat, that travels barely faster than the zombies, but do it anyway!

Hilarious series just like Shaun of the Dead. Even has Walking Dead jokes.

I am from the USA and I normally am not a big fan of most UK humor (but very much respect the people in UK). So when I turned on this show and heard the English accents, I figured I would not get through the first episode. I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought it was hilarious and very well done. The 4 lead Characters were wonderful. A great way to spend your time. I am rooting for a second season. Highly recommended!!!

A parody about zombies that is somewhere between fun and ridiculous. It gives the impression that the scripts would need to be more worked to get distance from other so many parodies. But the characters manage to be attractive within the absurd. There are ways to explore that are not sufficiently exploited, especially in a certain realistic representation of the stereotypes of fiction.

Surely they could have found some actors from Birmingham.

I was born and bred in in Birmingham and do not know anyone with those accents !!

It saddens me that IMDb have allowed a review on here by someone who's has said that all of the boys/ men in English towns are Arab like the show. There are no Arabs in the show and the largest population in most English towns are middle aged English women. So dim

Surprisingly boring for a show about a zombie apocalypse... and where are all the zombies?

Also completely unfunny for a "comedy" series.

The worst problem here is the writing. Just a bad story with a lot of laziness. One dimensional characters who behave unlike any real person. Huge lacks of logic.

Examples of lazy jokes? They lean way too much on Sean of the Dead. They try to escape on a super slow drifting boat (why?) Even when they find a faster boat with a motor, they don't even think to switch over to it instead. At least three times they do the "we need to make a fast getaway!" joke then we see the boat moving very slowly. We get it, it's a super slow boat. Kind of funny the first time, never again after that. It's six episodes of that.

Examples of lazy writing? Well, the main zombie, who happens to be one of the girls' date from the night before (super coincidence) who happens to end up chasing their super slow boat (super coincidence) leads a small group of like five zombies (about the only zombies in this zombie show) along the river bank. Apparently this is the only riverbank on earth with no natural obstacles or tributaries that would stop the zombies because they always keep up with the boat at exactly the same distance. On top of that, we then learn that this zombie leader is a "super special" zombie because he's much stronger and FASTER than the other zombies... OK so then why are all the other zombies he's with able to keep up with him the entire time?

I hate writing like this where they completely ignore not just real world logic but their own rules which they make up for their own story. That's not just lazy, it's just plain stupid. I can't believe this show made it to production without these problems - and there are many glaring problems - being addressed.

At another point a zombie falls off their hotel roof and lands right beside the boat, at least twenty feet away from the building. Our heroes then plan to jump into the river, which is about thirty feet away. Head-scratching ineptitude in both writing and filmmaking.

There's also a guy running a barge to refuel boats, and they stop to get fuel from him and he wants to be paid, even though he knows about the zombie apocalypse. That might be a funny gag, but they then spend the entire episode with this guy demanding payment, chasing them around and kidnapping them. Finally at the end one of them thinks to say "hey man it's a zombie apocalypse, money is worthless, you can't spend it anywhere" and then he's like "you're right" and he accepts their spare boat as payment instead. The end.

I mean seriously, there is supposed to be a zombie infestation but we never see any of them on the street in this city. They go to a grocery store and get trapped inside by the automatic door. So we're supposed to believe that 1) the woman trapped in there trapped a horde of zombies by stacking up a wall of boxes while they just, I guess, stood there watching her? 2) that woman was not waiting at the door for people to open it so she could escape? 3) she's been trapped there all day, meaning that not a single person came to try to get food or medical supplies ALL DAY? 4) the grocery store has no other exits, just the automatic entrance and the loading dock where she somehow trapped the horde of zombies 5) when the grocery store was built, they ordered super special glass doors that can't possibly be broken? All day? 6) the front doors are impossible to open from the inside but still easily opened by sensors on the outside (pretty bad fire safety) and 7) after our heroes narrowly escape, the zombies are trapped inside pounding on the doors... but our heroes are standing right there and then just walk away, so why don't they trigger the automatic doors to open again? That would have been logical AND been a good, fun and funny moment for the show, but the writers did not even see this apparently.

This show is riddled with issues like that. Its stupidity induces one eye roll after another. Zomboat is way too stupid to be a good zombie show, and way too unfunny to be a comedy.

I've seen a couple of these actors in other things which were much better so I don't blame them. It's bad and lazy writing, start to finish.

I will be shocked if this show gets a second season.